A level History

Democracy and Dictatorship

Section 1: How effectively did Hitler establish and consolidate Nazi authority 1933–45?

• Aims of the Nazis
• Nazi admission to power in 1933
• Nazi consolidation of power
• Hitler and government
• The Police State
• Resistance

Section 2: To what extent did the Nazis transform German society?

• Changes in society
• Women and the family
• The Churches
• Propaganda and control
• ‘Racial purity’
• Anti-Semitism

Section 3: To what extent and in what ways did Communism transform the GDR?

• Potsdam and the establishment of the Soviet zone
• The consolidation of Communism under the SED
• The Berlin Blockade and the emergence of the GDR
• Economic change in the GDR
• Social change in the GDR
• The Berlin Wall

Section 4: How far did Western democratic structures succeed in the Federal Republic?

• The Western zones 1945–9
• The West German constitution
• Political parties
• The Western economy
• Western integration
• Social changes and Adenauer’s decline